Music

Music

Michael Gutierrez 9/5/24 Michael Gutierrez 9/5/24

Final Gasp: “Mourning Mood”

Metal, with a touch of New Wave?

Michael Gutierrez 8/30/24 Michael Gutierrez 8/30/24

The Unbearable Gloominess of Being

Royal Thunder sounds like a nickname for Zeus at Somergloom at Arts at the Armory.

Michael Gutierrez 8/29/24 Michael Gutierrez 8/29/24

O, The Heaviness!

Big Brave brings the noise at Somergloom at Arts at the Armory.

Michael Gutierrez 2/5/24 Michael Gutierrez 2/5/24

Lucifer: “At The Mortuary”

A surprisingly orthodox version of 80s-style Satan rock.

Michael Gutierrez 1/26/24 Michael Gutierrez 1/26/24

Sepsiss: “Yesterday Isn’t Me”

The Manchester metal outfit rocking your world since Obama took office.

Michael Gutierrez 11/30/23 Michael Gutierrez 11/30/23

Black Massachusetts

Coven flashes the sign of the horns at The Sinclair.

Michael Gutierrez 9/29/23 Michael Gutierrez 9/29/23

DREAR: “…Flashed Before My Eyes”

An 8:29 opener on a four-song EP?

Michael Gutierrez 7/21/23 Michael Gutierrez 7/21/23

Hot Dog Daydreams

The White Bear Principle mulls a tattoo at the Silhouette Lounge.

Blue Manic: “The Ballad of Choocho Gonzales”

Michael Gutierrez 6/21/23 Michael Gutierrez 6/21/23

Blue Manic: “The Ballad of Choocho Gonzales”

Blue Manic can go longer. They love to go longer.

Michael Gutierrez 6/16/23 Michael Gutierrez 6/16/23

Adapter Adapter: “Phantom Limb”

Amputation is a pretty metal concept, right?

Michael Gutierrez 5/27/23 Michael Gutierrez 5/27/23

Metal Blues Ballers

Adapter Adapter paired hot licks and harmonica at Silhouette Lounge.

Meadowgoat: “Milkweed (Butterfly & Bee)”

Michael Gutierrez 4/14/23 Michael Gutierrez 4/14/23

Meadowgoat: “Milkweed (Butterfly & Bee)”

Meadowgoat hits like a proggier Liturgy on “Milkweed (Butterfly & Bee).”

Michael Gutierrez 4/10/23 Michael Gutierrez 4/10/23

Barishi: “Blood Aurora”

Doomy, sludgy, growl-into-the-mic vibrations from Brattleboro’s Barishi.

Michael Gutierrez 4/5/23 Michael Gutierrez 4/5/23

Sweet Sweat

this body is all i have in the world disregards grammar at Silhouette Lounge.

Michael Gutierrez 4/1/23 Michael Gutierrez 4/1/23

A Dog’s Life

Nequient unquiets quiescence at Silhouette Lounge.

Michael Gutierrez 2/6/23 Michael Gutierrez 2/6/23

Clifford: “Sea of Tragedy”

Millimeter-precise death metal in bunches from Boston’s Clifford.

Michael Gutierrez 12/28/22 Michael Gutierrez 12/28/22

Ageotan Pours One Out

Black metal mavens Ageotan headlined a hard rocking bill at Midway Cafe.